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D-Lab Scale-Ups awards $60,000 to three MIT social entrepreneurs
Sidhant Pai, Zehra Ali, and Matthew Orosz to receive funding and mentorship over 12-month fellowship.
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- Education
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Pitching Investors in Global Health: Funding lessons from social entrepreneurs
The initial transition from grant funding to more and different funding is challenging, but global health social entrepreneurs can learn a lot from the lessons of their peers. That’s why SEAD, in partnership with USAID and other members of their Higher Education Solutions Network, have been studying the patterns of the marketplace to discern rules of the road.
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- Education, Health Care
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Four in five investors consider sustainability issues – PwC survey
Four in five investors have looked at sustainability issues in one or more investment contexts in the last year, according to research from PwC. However, investors also cited dissatisfaction with current reporting standards.
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- Education, Environment
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PRESS RELEASE: Correlation Established Between Mobile Phone Usage and Banking Behavior
Findings are result of WSBI project carried out by Cignifi
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Weekly Roundup – 6/7/2014: Experience is winning the battle with theory, and that’s good news for social enterprises
More college students are studying abroad, interning and volunteering in an effort to pad their resume, but also to get the personalized education they desire. It could be argued that this is good news for social enterprises focused on health care.
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- Education, Health Care
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How Abandoned Houses Are Creating a Golden Opportunity: An Interview With Antonio Díaz, Founder and CEO of Provive
Erik Simanis, managing director of Market Creation Strategies at the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University, says BoP scholars and managers (himself included) became so preoccupied with the social mission that they lost sight of business fundamentals and the realities of working within corporations. But, he sees an upside.
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Roadblocks to Bridges: How municipal governments, NGOs and companies can unlock inclusive cities
Ultimately, municipal governments must lead in making investment and policy decisions that support all urban citizens. Urban planners, multilateral organizations, NGOs, and academics are natural contributors; indeed, as highlighted in the examples by Dalberg researchers, some of them have already begun to help.
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NexThought Monday – MNCs, the Grassroots and the Future of the BoP
Santa Clara State University’s Jim Koch says two big conferences in the last ten years have come to frame BoP market development efforts. What can we learn from what did – and what notably did not – transpire in the decade between the two gatherings? Among other things, Koch says major corporations have been greatly eclipsed by grassroots innovators.
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- Education
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